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> The OP's Pete I have met many. It is exactly as described.

I don't think they are different, or at least that far apart.

I have a couple of Pete stories of my own. The last one I had a manager wanting a year's worth of work released in 3 months to meet nice-to-have deadlines. I explained that it was impossible to meet that requirement, but I offered an alternative solution that delivered a MVP in a couple of months but we would still need a year of intensive manual intervention alongside development work to get the system running. I repeated over and over the technical debt. He accepted the tradeoff.

After I delivered the MVP, that manager completely axed any follow-up development work and replaced it with four more ambitious projects. Now we have engineers wasting a few days of work per month doing manual maintenance tasks on top of project work because actually finishing the MVP is no longer in the roadmap.

Here's the kicker: what would happen if I left the company? Would I be singled out as the scapegoat for the MVP being a mess that's missing critical features? Would I be blamed for the project not working as presented by the manager to higher ups? Would I be vilified by the engineers tasked with doing grunt work for something that could be easily automated if a team worked on it for a few months?
Listening to David Sedaris' Six to Eight Black Men. It's an amazing bit.
Cheers homie! I'll go pour myself some Angels Envy and drink with ya.
Because the way you did it, it is gambling.
* approx age 6-7: unwrapping a Nintendo entertainment system (part-time English teacher single-parent mom but investment banker uncle)

* a few years later: same thing with SNES

* middle school: coming back from a small ski trip and starting to read John Grisham novels.

* college: staying over one break in western mass. Biking to Hadley mall where they had an Amy’s cheese pizza and bringing it back to the German house that had an oven.

* mid 20s: watching whatever odd PBS documentary while hanging out with my mom.

* early 30s: my aunt’s lasagna and extended family meals we took for granted at the time.

* late 30s: good news after a fertility journey.

* early 40s (today): my wife and I using our decade of experience navigating edge cases when filling prescriptions to help my MIL fill an important heart medication so she didn’t have to go to the ER for Christmas.
Show HN: Bluesky Firehose Visualized as a Terminal
it's a stylistic choice, youthful & casual,,
Indian (Hindu) here who went to a Catholic convent back home. My favorite memory is of a reenactment of Jesus’ birth on stage by a bunch of 10th graders (my class) and instantly falling for the girl that played Mary. I’m now married to her and we have a toddler.
Merry Christmas!
The piss meter IS real. I love this.
The justice system relies on the concept of guilt beyond reasonable doubt. That standard doesn’t mean “proved to be impossible to be innocent.”

In a system that is in a population of millions of people, there are bound to be edge cases where there’s a lot of damning evidence and people look guilty who just aren’t.

It’s one of the many arguments against capital punishment. It can’t be undone.
Not all docks need DisplayLink. Thunderbolt-powered ones like this [0] or this [1] can support multiple displays for Macbook Pros without it, so if you want to avoid having to use DisplayLink, they're solid picks. The one thing you need to watch out for is that if you go with the second one, there are no HDMI ports, so you need a USB-C to HDMI converter, which in my experience can be flaky at higher refresh rates. If on the other hand your monitors support DisplayPort, then USB-C to DisplayPort is native, doesn't need a converter (just an adapter), and works better.

1: https://plugable.com/products/tbt4-ud5

2: https://www.caldigit.com/thunderbolt-4-element-hub/
If you are visiting SF, Christmas is the very best time to sightsee, especially in the morning. Every major location has plenty of free parking and no one is there. I have lived here for decades but Christmas is my favorite time to bring visitors because they can see everything that is normally hard to see because of parking, too many tourists etc.
How Mayor Guo Turned Her Town Into a Hub for ‘Pig Butchering’ Scammers
>The win or loss is ancillary to the experience for me.

Maybe because I primarily play sports and not chess but this attitude is completely foreign and mystifying to me.

Don't you feel bad when you lose? Why would you purposely engage in an ELO system that results in you feeling bad after 50% of games, and never gives you a sense of progress?

Isn't that profoundly discouraging?

Do you think Tiger Woods or Leo Messi wish they won fewer matches? Like I just can't get myself into a headspace where you're out for competition but are satisfied with a 50% win rate.
It's a fair comparison. Both Apple's computers and drives like the WD SN850x are using commodity SSD-grade TLC flash; there's no significant difference in quality, performance, efficiency, or durability in the flash itself. It's possible (maybe even likely) that a Mac with 2TB of built-in storage is using literally the same NAND flash dies that show up in a SN850x.

SSD performance and power efficiency are significantly affected by the choice of controller. Apple's Macs have the controller built-in to the SoC, so it's a sunk cost that doesn't really factor in to upgrade pricing.
ClickHouse is open core too. If you care about that.
Employees Are Coffee Badging to Avoid Full Days at the Office [video]
Obviously, land use restrictions make a difference. I can think of a few acres down the street from where my parents house is that could easily be used to build about 48 units of modest (triplex/fourplex) density where a church on was just recently torn down. Neighbors NIMBYd a proposal along those lines.

OK, density/character politics strike again, familiar story.

But, notably, you could fit at least 12 single family homes with lot sizes that are 100% entirely in character with the surrounding neighborhood. Quite probably 16. Possibly as many as 20.

What's going in? 6 big lots + mcmansions.

Not because the city made the developer do it. Not because the neighbors wouldn't allow matching density. The difference between 16 and 48 might be a land use restriction problem, but the difference between 6 and 16 doesn't seem to be. For some reason, this is what the developer would rather build.

The microeconomic detail of the developer's decision isn't public, but it's a very well known phenomenon in many markets that producers do not want to oversupply and often target production a bit short of demand. This may not be true when marginal cost per unit is small (you may as well try to saturate the market and then create new demand)... but that doesn't describe housing, does it? Per unit costs are always non-trivial. Trying to maximize per-unit profit by producing short of demand may not be the only strategy, but it's an uncontroversial and reasonably incentivized one.

And this wouldn't be the first time that I'd heard that mcmansions on big lots can be considerably more profitable per unit. So I'm willing to bet that when these 6 houses go to market, they will sell for 2-5x comparable surrounding homes. There's comparables within a mile on smaller lots with multipliers in that range. So they'll get the same return from the project on without having to build as many units. And that's just on this site. In the geographic area, they will be keeping supply constrained and therefore keeping the marginal return on additional units they build higher.

Phrases like "per unit profit" and "diminishing marginal returns" commonly show up in some popular economic discussion in other markets -- agriculture at least. But for some reason, they're rare when not entirely absent from popular discussion of real estate development and housing.

I suspect additional significant dynamics with materials costs, financing costs, and price signaling (as well as supply) are also in play, but I'm probably a damned fool for posting as much as I have in hopes of a better public conversation and policy more beneficial for all. Probably would be smarter to find ways to play the game myself, especially given that existing homeowners share many incentives with developers. Other holiday activities are more likely to bring emotional rewards. Still, maybe someone smarter than me will provide me with the opportunity to discover why I'm wrong and more optimism is appropriate. That'd be a fine Christmas gift.
That's not an abstraction, that's a layer of indirection
Wow. This is awesome in all the wrong ways. I can't decide if I hate it or love it.

It uses its own language, it's really written from scratch to such an extent that it uses direct C API for Cocoa on macOS instead of the usual approach of just using a couple of Objective C files. The code is not in a version control, and I have not seen a single comment apart from the copyright headers.
a settlement just short circuits the process. Without a settlement, it goes to court and, depending on the jurisdiction and case details, decided by a judge or a jury, and again depending on the jurisdiction and case details, penalties are decided by a judge or a jury.

Really it's pretty similar to criminal court with the exception that neither party will have a criminal charge or criminal judgement against them at the end of it. No one will go to jail.
”In my experience, the stronger programmers don't use an IDE and also have no problem producing code at the same speed as IDE users. I also find that the code produced with an IDE is lower quality. I have no idea why”

Zed Shaw in Learn C The Hard Way. For some reason, the most brilliant devs I’ve worked with all used Vim, so I can echo this statement.
> Pete's just a rational actor in this scenario, the real issue is management with no insight into the reality of what they're 'managing'.

That's the norm, isn't it? The bulk of product managers aren't even technically oriented, let alone software engineering experts with a deep understanding of their own codebases.

Once I worked with a PM that quite openly stated he had to google what was a frontend and a backend developer and still failed to get a clear idea of what they did. How do you explain concepts such as technical debt to this sort of character?
Randomly wouldn't be that bad. But whole segments - way more noticable!
Sounds like a very Harry at Hogwarts kind of Christmas!
Quartz watches are having a movement
Do you have a plausible mechanism by which they could cause cancer?
Don't think too hard about it.

And probably let's not apply rule 34 here, either.
It's possible to care only in some modes of your being.
Merry Christmas!

I had rented Final Fantasy 7 from Blockbuster so many times that my brother decided to get it for me for Christmas. Even though I never really snooped for presents he decided to mess with my head and wrapped it in two large bath towels and put it in an even larger box. This giant package below the tree for me, and it sounded like cloth - I figured it must've been a jacket or something until I opened it.

Another time I was looking for something (not presents) in my parent's room, and happened to find a very poorly hidden Playstation 2 from my father. The waiting until Christmas part was fitting punishment for accidental snooping.

Some of the finest memories are just a jumble of similar situations though. Christmas Eve was the night my entire local family would gather at my maternal grandmother's house, and we'd all have a big meal and sit around chatting afterwards.

Then there's that one Christmas Eve when I asked my now-wife to marry me. I knew she'd say yes but there's always that little bit of fear about it. I wanted to ask when everyone I loved would be around.

Time sure flies. Both my father and my maternal grandmother have passed since the last time we all celebrated Christmas together.
A rival cartel paid a British mercenary to drop 500lb bombs on Palbo Escobar in the 1990s.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/sep/14/colombia.world

So it isn't an entirely new concept.
Indeed, most frustrating is when someone (stupid) is proven right, even though they used completely wrong reasoning (in spirit of Gettier problem).
Slow in terms of performance or development velocity?
> The reason they can "move fast" is because everyone else is trying to limit complexity, etc. and they are punching holes through the abstractions.

That's perfectly fine. Your salary is paid by paying customers which are attracted and maintained by improving their user experience. You will never get a new paying customer by advertising that you prevented your abstractions from being soiled.
God jul, and Merry Christmas to you, personally, my friend!
The year I got the original Gameboy, came with Tetris and Gargoyle's Quest. Must have been 1991 or so, was probably the happiest Christmas of my life. Incredible how I still vividly remember that morning, more than 30 years later. I opened the gifts and then we spent the day at my cousins’ eating and playing, I was the youngest among my cousins and it was so cool hanging out with them, slightly older kids, we stayed there from morning til midnight. What I wouldn’t do to live that day again, perhaps paying more attention to the adult conversations happening at the dinner table which I completely ignored as a young kid back then.

My parents have been so good and kind to me, we were never poor but money was always tight with my dad being a small business owner with some ups and many downs, and yet they never failed to provide memorable gifts when I was a kid. I was very happy back then, but just as an adult I came to appreciate the sacrifices they must have made for me.
It would be comical if it weren't so ridiculous. The standards group is surely aware of how ridiculous it is, yet they keep coming up with these idiotic names, and then try to defend it by saying "its only the technical name, not the marketing name", as if that matters.

They honestly just need to kill off USB at this point and just let Thunderbolt supersede it. Thunderbolt 4 and 5 are literally just implementations of USB4, except the Thunderbolt standards group is doing a hell of a lot better job at naming things and certifying cables than the USB group is.
Christmas of 1981 in Athens, Greece. I was 15. Father had died 3 years ago from heart attack at 42. His last words to my mother: "Educate the kids".

She did her best, given that my grandfather was old fashioned and had stopped her from going to school after she became twelve, although she was among the smartest in her class.

That Christmas she had bought me the brand new then Sinclair ZX81 personal computer. We were visiting the grandparents in a small village near Athens.

I spend the night by the fireplace with a small portable TV and the machine, typing in games published in the UK PC magazines of that time and occasionally watching the Chrstmas shows. Debugging my typos was the way I learned how programming works.

Nothing really interesting here, but I am remembering that night again and again so when I saw the prompt I felt I should share. Merry Christmas everyone.
Lets replace them.
The title is a bit dramatic. It never got to a trial, because his alibi checked out.

One of the factors was him walking into frame of a taping of Curb your Enthusiasm. The main factor was his cellphone placing him at that location after answering a call that pinged off a tower near the stadium 20mins before the murder which was 20 miles away. There was also footage from the stadium that showed a person in his seat, but resolution was not good enough to be dismissed from that alone. Even the shows footage did not clear him from charges, it was the cellphone location data.

The real tragedy was the clerical error:

"Due to a clerical error, he had to report back to county jail two days later."

On the positive:
"In 2007, Juan received $320,000 in a settlement of his civil lawsuit against the LAPD and the city of Los Angeles for false imprisonment, misconduct and defamation."
I went with what you wrote since it has been a while since I took general chemistry, but upon doing a simple lookup, I found that your terminology is wrong. In redox reactions, the oxidizing agent is reduced while the reducing agent is oxidized:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redox

Here, the metal is the reducing agent. If it were somehow reduced in redox reactions, there not much chance of it being oxidized as that would make the metal an oxidizing agent that wants electrons, not a reducing agent that gives electrons.

That said, these things have already been oxidized (not reduced) and thus there is no chance to have them consume oxygen. You need the pre-oxidized material in order to be able to consume oxygen.

Finally, you failed to answer my question regarding the relevance of these metals to atmospheric oxygen. They should be inert having been oxidized long ago. That is why rocks are full of oxides, such as silicon dioxide and aluminum oxide, despite being composed of metal.
M365 Maps: Microsoft 365 Licensing
I discovered this word from the book series shadow of the torturer/book of the new sun vol 1 & 2. The main character has a fuligin cloak.
You would probably prefer the game Shooting Fish in a Barrel over the game Chess.

Winning half the time is better because each of those wins means far far more than winning against bad players.

Playing down is only fun for insecure, unambitious people. If winning is the fun part, just cheat, don't seek out bad players to play against. Playing against bad players makes you bad at chess.
I thought people HN know better than random "traders" on reddit/YouTube/TikTok
Also doesn't add much, but I was waiting for this comment. It makes me laugh that non-capitalization (or non-conformative structure) is the bane of HN's existence.
US housing market is mirroring 2008 bubble–real estate analyst
Ask HN: What Motivates you to keep going?
what is your why?
The ELO system does give you a sense of process. Continuing to beat up weak players does not give you progress. It makes you the one eyed king of the blind.

Do you think professional athletes like Woods and Messi are stupid because they could be playing in Farm League and winning every time against scrubs?
Well, no. Hikikomori isn’t an all or nothing state of being.

What makes the news and what makes it to the Western media are the most extreme cases.

The actual development to the extreme (or not) can be quite gradual.
> And that's just hooey.

Well, I mean Google animism. It's hooey from your point of view.
Genuine curiosity - admittedly these sorts of “contributors” probably aren’t doing it out of a passion for FOSS or any particular project, but if it’s something that fixes an issue (however small) is that actually a net negative for the project?

Maybe I have some sort of bias, but it feels like a lot of the projects I see specifically request help with these sorts of low-hanging-fruit contributions (lumping typos in with documentation).
Short term memory is extremely different from lifelong memory.
> I don’t know what you’re on about.

Yes, that is partly my fault.
Function arguments vs global functions/variables vs local variables. Although maybe not technically syntax highlighting many IDEs can do this. Ie. Making non-local information local.
> If we train ourselves out of being able to do these tasks, won't we find it harder to recognise when the AI makes mistakes?

We are not skipping these tasks. We are using tools to help us avoid doing drudge work that can be automated away.

Code linters eliminate the need to prettify code. Do developers find it harder to recognize indentation inconsistencies? Syntax highlighters simplify picking up code constructs. Do developers find it harder to read code? Template engines simplify generating new source files with programming constructs. Do developers find it harder to read code? Heck, auto complete helps developers write whole code blocks faster. Do developers find it harder to write a function?
What about no dock and no 3 external monitors ?
>It’s one of the many arguments against capital punishment. It can’t be undone.

Neither can time spent behind bars.
Spite. That's my only remaining motivating force. Anything I do is out of spite, just to show them.
>The ELO system does give you a sense of process.

By definition it does not, unless your definition of progress is "number go up".

>Do you think professional athletes are stupid because they could be playing in Little League and winning every time against kids?

So let me get this straight: are you seriously suggesting that you don't understand the difference between e.g. the format of the NHL or the FIFA world cup, and playing against literal children to pad one's win rate?

Because I think you're probably not arguing in good faith with that last comment. Time for me to duck out of this conversation.
It's not dramatic at all. Without proof of his innocence, it could very well have gone to trial and resulted in a conviction, thanks to people's belief in the reliability of "eyewitness testimony". This case alone should show just how useless and flimsy eyewitness testimony is.
Lots of cool stuff to see and do, and lots of cool stuff to share with my kids
On the plus side if we use up all the oxygen, we’ll have solved the problem of burning fossil fuels producing CO2!
This is one of those comments where I'm not sure what the downvotes meant. Do people think a downvote signifies a 'no' answer to a yes/no question, or are they trying to say "I don't appreciate it when people ask questions"?
May you all find Peace and comfort this Christmas. I had a somewhat traumatic childhood but Christmas Eve was the one day I could count on to find solace. Despite the dysfunction of family, attending Christmas Mass and in later years watching the televised Christmas Eve mass from the Vatican was always a calming experience. God is love. We are his children, brothers and sisters. We may not understand the mystery of life. But we have faith in God whose mercy endures forever.
And what if Apple is not up 40% this year?

Apple was down 24% during Dec 2021-Dec 2022. It could have happened this year, could happen next year. Nobody knows.

By comparison, VOO was down 18% during that period. If you put money in Treasury bonds, you come out positive.

My point is that there is a reason behind many practical, reasonable financial advice instead of "cash advance at 20%, and if you are lucky, you could still be ahead".
> So, your argument is that AI does not replace programmers, it just... replaces programmers?

I pointed out the fact that AI does not replace programmers. You still need people between keyboards and chairs delivering code and maintaining systems.

What AI does is make developers far more efficient at their job.

If you have employees that do their work in less time, they do not get more free time. They get more work. The moment their workforce is more productive, employees start to need fewer employees to deliver the same volume of work.
> amount of data you'd need to learn in order to give descent law advice on a spot?

amount of data you'd need to learn to generate and cite fake court cases and give advice that may or not be correct with equal apparent confidence in both cases

fixed that for you
This article the crux, is this about extractable hydrogen or some proxy about it (vs just "interesting number"), to the last sentence.

The abstract is again the best summary:

"[...] Given the associated uncertainty, stochastic model results predict a wide range of values for the potential in-place hydrogen resource [103 to 1010 million metric tons (Mt)] with the most probable value of ~5.6 × 106 Mt. Although most of this hydrogen is likely to be impractical to recover, a small fraction (e.g., 1 × 105 Mt) would supply the projected hydrogen needed to reach net-zero carbon emissions for ~200 years."
eh, do what you want imo